The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-11-19


ceeds OF fails, Mr.. Miner will have to pay
her one hundred thousand dollars, and that
is no bad plum to take these hard times.
Jim the Penman still crowds the Madi-
son Square, and George :. Knight fills the
14th Street with Baron Rudolph, which is
taken our German fellow citizens by Storm
and the walls of the, Old Bowery fairly
shake with the roars of laughter that burst
from the crowds which throng the theater
nightly.
Once more we haye the German Opera
at the Metropolitan Opera House with
| Herr Sedel as predicted at the baton. l
knew when Herr Seidel left us, that, once
having had taste of our American Book
Beer and Yankee Frankfurters-not to
mention Weiner, Schnetzel and double dis
titled Saur Kraut-that Bismarck and Won
Moltke could never hold him in Berlin. He
had not been back there week when he
began to sigh for the flesh pots of Egypt;
haYe him back. The company is substan-
TALLY the same as it was last year, and that
is good enough. Wagner, of course, is on
top, and Die Meistersinger was the opening
piece. That it was a success goes without
saying, for the house was packed from pit
to dome.
And now you ask where do all these
thousands come from who crowd the thea
ters nightly. We have a floating popula-
ton which changes every day of fifty or
sixty thousand; then we have over two
millions of people in New York and Brook
lyn. All the theaters and public halls will
not hold the people who come to this city
from day to day to see the sights. Men GO
ly, who would not have it known at home
for thousand dollars. Country ministers,
deacors and church trustees rarely fail of a
chance to go to the theater, and with the
amusement lovers of our own population
we have enough of people to fill them all tc
overlooking But in the midst of all this
reYelry there is feyerish under-current
ominous with disaster. The departure oi
Mr.. Gould for England in NoYember ha:
something more In it than merely search Of
health. The fact is the man is breaking
down under the terrible strain of constant
dread of assassination, which walks behint
him like spectre night and day. Since
the strike ON the Missouri Pacific, Mr.
6 Gould has been in terror night and day
Hundreds of desperate men We're ruined b!
that strike, and they have brooded on thei
:, misery, of which they conceived Jay Goult
to be the cause. That terrible dynamit
. bomb, that swept the Emperor of Russia
= surrounded by his legions, out of existence
q and which strewed the Haymarket with tn
!. dying and the dead, is eyer before him, ant
:, he knows that Nemesis is on track. In al
. the millions of this republic, no man is s.
thoroughly hated. What fate, what
!, price to pay for riches! That we have des
: perate men here is evidenced by the out
RACES of the last three weeks. A gentle
mans carriage stopped by highwAymen o.
one Of our most public streets, who onl
escaped robbery and murder by making
desperate fight. At eleven o'clock in tn
morning a carriage in Union Square, guard
/, ed by coachman and footman, was robbie
l. OF camel's hair shawl worth thousan
d dollars. In Brooklyn, a rich merchar
d named Wechsler, the proprietor of one {
al the most magnificent stores in the country
n was sent an internal machine for the pul
N pose of Killing him; instead of which
If nearly killed his wife, her father and h
a. child. The appalling deviltry of such
es crime has filled the city with horrer, an
k if the people could have laid their hands q
le the mscreant, they would have given hi
v short shrift.
~ The election has of course absorbed Il
W principal attention of the week. The col
ne test has been one of the most bitter al
In acrimonious that we have had for mar
c. years. All parties nave exerted themsey
II to the utmost, and now that the battle
he over, let us hope that they will all on
O. more settle down to business, pick the
)" fints and prepare for the great battle
ds 1898.
,r- Election day was one of the loYeliest
an the season, and all things considered, ol
ng of the qLietest elections we have had +
le, many years. Every nerve was strained
en- by all the parties in the field; the judg
- ment which gave the fifth inspector TO Il
,ty United Labor party, adding materially
IL the bitterness of the contest. The collar
yer of Mr., Georges vote in the city was Il
ith unexpected by those who understood 4
his elements of his first victory. The beati
his of gongs and the blowing of horns deceiy
nd nobody but his followers, and the supp'
ed. accorded to him by Doctor McGlynn, h
zee anything but fayorable effect on his CT
ish vass. The notice had gone forth silen
Did but surely that vote for George was
yo- insult to the Catholic church; the con
I'm quence was that In districts where "
eet ago Mr.. George ran like raeehorse,
que hardly got vote. The fight made by
full World for Delaney Nieoll shows
you utter futility of third parties in New Yo
nd The Ring is too powerful for the peoT
ms Maurice Power and Coroner Croker wit
is limitless bank account and an army OF "
the trained henchmen defed Pulitzer and